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Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

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Issues : Errors in GE

b. 602-603

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

 in EE

GC (→GE2)

No sign in FE & GE1
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For the main text we adopt the musically indisputable GC hairpins  (→GE2, omitted in GE1). The corresponding mark in EE seems to be placed inaccurately - crescendo on the the resounding chord is in fact impossible to execute on the grand piano. No sign in FE may indicate a less carerful edition of execution markings in [A2] (cf. annotation to b. 373)

 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE , EE inaccuracies

b. 604

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

No slur in EE, FE & GE1

Slur in GC & GE2
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The slur can be found only in GC. It was omitted in GE1 and added in GE2.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE

b. 605-608

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

No slurs in EE & FE

Slur in GC & GE2

Alternative reading of slurs in GC.

Slur in GE1, contextual interpretation
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The slur over these bars exists only in GC in bars  573-576, which here are repeated with a change of the beginning. Since the slur in GC begins in b. 604 on the previous page on the last chord. A question arises here how to connect this slur with a slur over the four-bar section in 605-608. We assume them to be one slur, and as such it is the copied in GE2 (in GE1 there  are no slurs in bars 604-607, which is an obvious error. However, another solution may be proposed here where only bars 605-608 are slurred and the slur in b. 604 ends on the sixth beginning in b. 605.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE